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Wednesday 9th October - Mossman

A cooler night where it got down to 18.0 but back upto 32.3 It was 34 in Mareeba where we are meant to be going in a few days. It might finally be time to start the air conditioning.

We drove back 14km down the road to Port Douglas today and upto Flagstaff Hill Lookout. We took a few pictures here as the view is spectacular. You are looking down onto a beach and the bay. You can see islands off in the distance. They have a monument with a brass plaque giving you distances to other cities. Adelaide is only 2145km!

Now off to find the scones and jam Clive said that I could have for lunch. Well, he tried three shops including a bakery and pie shop, but no scones to be found anywhere. So we settled on Moka's - Original Pie and Bakery. This shop has won many awards for its pies in the national pie contest. Clive had a Chicken Laksa pie and I had a vanilla slice and iced chocolate. Delicious. I even managed to get a jam donut to take back with us. Clive liked his pie so much that he went and bought a crocodile pie and a Cornish pastie for dinner while I got a steak, bacon and cheese. He froze the pastie, as I did the jam donut for another day.

The pies were very tasty and he said that the crocodile tastes a bit like chicken, but with a stronger texture to the meat. Something he will have again.

Then off for a drive around 'Port' as the locals call it. We went to the Marina and saw a steam cane train coming down the track returning to the Bally Hooley Station. The historic Ballyhoooley Train takes you on a 8km return sight seeing journey through town and then you can have lunch at Choo Choos Café. It was great to see it chugging along.

As we were leaving Port, we saw a sign to 4 Mile beach, so we thought to check this out. This beach can be seen from the Lookout at the end of Island Point Road. While at the beach we saw a big cruise ship anchored at sea - the Pacific Dawn. We had seen people in town wearing lanyards with the Pacific Dawn name on them, while we were having lunch, so they were doing an on shore day.

On the way back we took a detour to Mossman Gorge. Clive decided not to do the bus trip and walk as I would have to wait for him and the day has been pretty hot with very little breeze. So we bought some tea towels and a magnet instead. Back to the van and a rest for me while Clive reads.

Mr 'Have a chat' was at it again. Talking to the permanent near us, he originally moved from Adelaide to the Gold Coast in 1991. Early 2014 he moved up here and said that the park has been at 100% capacity and the winter has been cold. Well about 18 most days with a few going down to 12 - which for him is cold.

Tomorrow we're off to Mount Malloy for two days of free camping.




Entering Port
Douglas.

Flagstaff
Hill.

4 Mile
Beach.


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Islands in
the distance.

How far to
Ayres Rock?.

Gai at the
lookout.


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Signal
Flagstaff.

Gai at
lunch.

Moka's Bakery
and cafe.


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Iced
chocolate.

Jennifer Campbell's
Hair Salon.

Crocodile
pie.

Old cane
train.

Bundy, the steam
cane train.


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Port Douglas
Marina.


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Bally Hooley
Railway Station.


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Macrossan Street,
Port Douglas.


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4 Mile
Beach.

The Pacific
Dawn.


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Leaving Port
Douglas.

Mossman Gorge
World Heritage Area.


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Aboriginal
art.

Crocodile
pie.

Croc
meat.

Steak, bacon
and cheese pie.